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President Donald Trump waves goodbye to reporters following a meeting with the Teamsters in 2024. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Trump administration has proven no friend to organized labor, from attacking federal unions to paralyzing the National Labor Relations Board

Jake Rosenfeld, Washington University in St. Louis

Donald Trump isn’t the first GOP president to have courted segments of the labor movement, dividing a key Democratic constituency, only to take actions that make unions weaker.
Rusholme, Manchester: famous for the curry mile and now for being the UK constituency with the lowest election turnout in 2024, at just 40%. Andy Marshall / Alamy

The true class divide in British politics is not which party people choose, but whether they vote at all

Oliver Heath, Royal Holloway, University of London and Laura Serra, London School of Economics and Political Science

Class was once a strong indicator of which political party you would support. But since 2001, something quite different has been happening.

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  5. Labor unions
  6. Labour Party
  7. Middle classes
  8. Republican Party
  9. Trump administration
  10. UK politics

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